"Kill Him!" Again?

Just another Tuesday afternoon in Scranton, Pa. today with the exception of the thousands of voters that crammed into The Riverfront Sports Complex. Just another stop on the "Straight Talk Express" for Republican V.P. candidate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin who is currently hitting the trails without her running mate Arizona Senator John McCain, who is preparing for the upcoming third and final debate Wednesday night. Just another opportunity for rabid fans of the "Pitbull in lipstick" to "rear their [hateful] heads".

During Republican congressional candidate Chris Hackett's opening remarks, a morbidly enthusiastic (assumingly) supporter of the G.O.P. ticket in the audience shouted: "Kill him!"

If you haven't been following this late developing, salacious bit of political outrage fodder, the McCain campaign, faced with a sudden drop in prospective election polls, announced last week that they would attack the character of Illinois Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate, in an attempt to close the widening losing gap for the G.O.P. ticket. For the next several days on the campaign trail, Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin raised the question; "Who is Barack Obama...really?" Gov. Palin and Sen McCain were quoted several times on the stump inquiring about Sen. Obama's relationship with William Ayers; a former member of a 1960s radical leftist group. Twice last week, McCain surrogates referred to Sen. Obama as "Barack Hussein Obama" in front of booing, hostile crowds.

The McCain/Palin campaign strategy of ad hominem attack on Sen. Obama took a bad turn and ultimatley backfired when audience members at McCain rallies were captured on video screaming out lynch mob-like: "Terrorist!" "Kill him!" "Bomb Obama!" "Sit down, boy!"

Sen. McCain attempted to soothe the nerves of his newly riled up and riotous supporters by backpeddaling some of his previous accusations against Sen. Obama. Although less than 7 days ago, Gov. Palin was declaring as plain as Alaska snow that Barack Obama is secretly "pallin' around with terrorists". He even went as far as to say that no, Sen. Obama was not an "Arab...he's a decent family man...". He assured his G.O.P. loyalists in the crowd that they "didn't have to be afraid of an Obama president."

If the heat the McCain ticket was taking from the press and others had any effect on the Republican candidates and their campaign strategy, it certainly had no effect on the base of the G.O.P. voters. They seem to be content with the world viewing them as a lynch mob.

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